The California Wine Country Cookbook Ii

The theme of this collection of recipes by the best chefs of the California Wine Country is herbs and spices. These are some of the recipes that have made this region a world renowned center of creative cuisine.In addition to the recipes, there is a complete glossary of herbs and spices, recipes for making your own spice mixes, and how to make herbed and spiced oils and vinegars.This cookbook covers everything from appetizers to desserts. Now you can make such exciting dishes as Curried Chicken in Cracker Bread, Sherried Crab Soup, Shrimp and Citrus Salad with Curry Dressing, Fettucine with Lemon Caper Sauce, Pork Patties with Blackberry Salsa, Hazelnut Crusted Salmon, with Spicy Peach Sauce, Sauteed Chicken and Grapes in a Creamy Wine Sauce, Lavender Roasted Potatoes, and Black Forest Brownies. And, every main course has a recommended wine selection, too.

“This is an incredible and beautiful collection of recipes, stories about Central Coast vineyards, and photos.” —Susan Feniger, chef and author of Susan Feniger’s Street Food California’s Central Coast wine country is on everyone’s lips. Running roughly from Monterey to Santa Barbara, the Central Coast is the fastest-growing American Viticultural Area (AVA) in the state. Here, great minds conceive and create great wines—many of them blends of Rhône grape varieties. Complement these wines with the lush resources of unspoiled land, sea, and barnyard and you have the recipe for a fresh and alluring wine country lifestyle. In this lushly photographed tome, bestselling cookbook author Brigit Binns writes a vivid, delicious love letter to her home state. One hundred and twenty wine-friendly and wine-inclusive dishes showcase California’s glorious bounty, such as Shaved Artichoke and Pancetta Salad with Lavender; Fennel- and Garlic-Crusted Roast Chicken; Petrale Sole with Pinot Noir Butter Sauce; and Fresh Fig Tart with Honey, Goat Cheese, and Pistachios. Each recipe has a wine pairing suggestion from the region as well as from afar. Plus, 25 get-to-know-them profiles bring the reader inside the hearts and minds of the region’s passionate winemakers and food artisans. We all dream of the wine country lifestyle. With The New Wine Country Cookbook, you can now savor the romance, bold honest flavors, and rustic outdoor sensibility of California’s sublimely unpretentious new wine country in your own home. “Provides an evocative view of the dynamic food and wine culture of California’s fastest growing wine region.” —Rajat Parr, author of the James Beard Award–winning Secrets of the Sommeliers

Chef Michael Chiarello of the Napa Valley's celebrated Tra Vigne Restaurant shares his recipes and reminiscences inspired by his years there and the good Italian cooking of his family. 100 color photos.

On this joyful getaway to seven of California's finest wineries we will discover a unique California lifestyle through original, delicious and spectacular recipes. Chefs from such outstanding wineries as Fetzer, Kendall-Jackson, E. & J. Gallo, Arrowood, Beringer, L. M. Martini and R. H. Phillips offer a fresh and colorful cuisine that emanates multiethnic flavors and aromas in combinations as unexpected as they are astounding. Each recipe features a suggested wine to delightfully complement every course. The California dream in all its splendor! In addition to the recipes, which are true to the purest California winery tradition, whose philosophy and history are shared by today's owners and chefs, this incomparable book offers sumptuous color photographs, along with a wealth of details on the history of cuisine and winemaking in California, the phenomenal rise of organic growing and the region of San Francisco, the American capital of the avant-garde. California Wine Country, A Way of Life in 50 Recipes showcases the ingenuity of artisans who work in an extraordinary natural setting. The birthplace of "fusion cuisine", organic agriculture and a dynamic wine industry, California offers a bounty of delights that its chefs and oenologists energetically display for the whole world to discover. Book jacket.

Centered on the world’s premier winemaking region and renowned culinary destination, Wine Country Chef’s Table offers an intimate look at a region that thousands of travelers often just “taste.” It is a regional cookbook and travelogue, offering gems of recipes along with restaurant, winery, and farm stories to both locals and visitors alike. The book features great chefs, farmers, and food artisans from the distinct parts of the California wine country—spanning both the Napa and Sonoma valleys.

A joyful exploration of the cuisine of Baja California--hailed as Mexico's Napa Valley--with 60 recipes celebrating the laidback lifestyle found right across the border. Less than an hour's drive from San Diego, Baja California is an up-and-coming destination for tourists looking to experience the best of what Mexico has to offer. From Baja wine country to incredible seafood along the coast, Baja cuisine showcases grilled meats, freshly caught fish, and produce straight from the garden, all mingled with the salt spray of the Pacific Ocean. Inspired by the incredible local landscape and his food from the award-winning restaurant Fauna, star chef David Castro Hussong conducts a dreamy exploration of Baja cuisine featuring 60 recipes ranging from street food such as Grilled Halibut Tacos and Chicharrones to more refined dishes such as Grilled Steak in Salsa Negra and Tomatillo-Avocado Salsa. Each chapter features gorgeous photographs of the region and profiles of top food purveyors are scattered throughout, bringing the spirit of Baja into your kitchen, no matter where you live.

It's great fun to discover a taste sensation that makes you say ?Wow! This is fantastic!? and that sensation is readily available to you and your friends when you successfully pair wines and cheeses.With more than a thousand wines and a thousand cheeses in the world today, the number of combinations is mind-boggling ... literally, over a million potential combinations. But, what an excellent opportunity for you to enjoy the pleasure of searching for specific combinations of wines and cheeses that give you the ?Wow!? experience. In the Wine & Cheese Pairing Guide the authors give you a running start to find your ?Wow!? combinations. They give you helpful information about cheeses, wines, and pairing. They offer pairing recommendations developed through personal experience, tasting events with other people, recommendations by wine experts, recommendations by cheese experts, and various analytical pairings. Of course, the ultimate judge of your ?Wow!? combinations is you. Your unique set of taste buds and olfactory nerve cells will identify your exciting and perfect pairings.Considering over 150 different wines and 340 different cheeses, the authors present extensive recommendations in two formats: (1) Cheese & Wine Pairing Recommendations (you select a cheese and receive recommendations of wines that pair well with that cheese) and (2) Wine & Cheese Pairing Recommendations (you select a wine and receive recommendations of cheeses that pair well with that wine).Since a step in your quest for perfect pairings is to remember your personal tasting experiences, the Wine & Cheese Pairing Guide also includes two programmed journals for you to record specifics of outstanding combinations: (1) ?My Favorite Pairings? Journal and (2) ?Oops!... I Won't Pair These Again? Jou